Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Satisfaction in the Slums of Calcutta

By R. Biswas-Diener, E. Diener. 2001

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Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: emotional and cognitive evaluations of life. (2003, background): “For example, among respondents in the slums of Calcutta, Biswas-Diener & Diener (2001) report a strong correlation of .45 between income and life satisfaction.”
The Subjective Well-Being of the Homeless, and Lessons for Happiness (2006, methodology): “This is consistent with our past research, in which impoverished groups in Calcutta reported surprisingly high life satisfaction, given their environmental conditions (Biswas-Diener and Diener, 2001).”
Emotions Across Cultures and Methods (2004, background): “Latinos and Indians have received little attention (Biswas-Diener & Diener, 2001), despite the fact that India is the second largest nation in the world and is leading the world in population growth, and Latino Americans make up nearly 12% of the U.S. population and are on the verge of being the…”
Positive Psychology, Ethnocentrism, and the Disguised Ideology of Individualism (2008, background): “It is not only difficult to imagine how attempts to explore subjective well-being and happiness cross-culturally in terms of life satisfaction (see Biswas-Diener & Diener, 2001; Biswas-Diener et al., 2005) could adequately capture the experience in cultures, such as Bali, that subscribe to a…”
Subjective Well-Being: A General Overview (2009, result): “This finding is consistent with evidence that those living in slum housing, sex workers, and homeless pavement dwellers in Calcutta show life satisfaction only slightly below neutral (Biswas-Diener & Diener, 2001).”
TARGET ARTICLE: The Nonobvious Social Psychology of Happiness (2005, positive): “However, we have found that street prostitutes, the homeless, and people in mental hospitals are unhappy, far below neutral, even when their conditions have persisted over some period of time (e.g., Biswas-Diener & Diener, 2001).”
Approach and Avoidance Motives and Close Relationships (2012, background): “Several studies have shown that relationships are an important – perhaps the most important – source of life satisfaction and emotional well-being (e.g., Biswas-Diener & Diener, 2001; Campbell, Converse, & Rodgers, 1976; Diener & Seligman, 2002).”
The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction (2008, background): “Biswas-Diener and Diener (2001) interviewed people in the slums of Calcutta, India, and found their mean ratings of general life satisfaction were slightly negative overall, and somewhat more negative for some sub-groups (e.g., sex workers, pavement dwellers).”
The mediators of experiential purchases: Determining the impact of psychological needs satisfaction and social comparison (2009, background): “Biswas-Diener and Diener (2001) found a strong and significant correlation between income and wellbeing among impoverished residents of Calcutta, India.”
Cross-National Adolescent Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Reports: Analyses of Mean Scores and Response Style Differences (2008, background): “For example, subjective appraisals of life quality are related to objective living conditions (Veenhoven, 2005), and higher appraisals are often found among nations reporting more favorable living conditions ( Biswas-Diener and Diener, 2001 ).”
Integrating The Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “Long-term stable life circumstances can have some influence on SWB (e.g., Biswas-Diener and Diener, 2001), but recent events are more likely to produce strong reactions that include substantial changes in SWB (e.g., Lucas et al., 2004; Suh et al., 1996).”
Personality and Subjective Well-Being (2009, background): “For instance, Biswas-Diener and Diener (2001) found that”
Beyond Money (2004, background): “13 in the United States, whereas Biswas-Diener and Diener (2001) found that this correlation was .45 in the slums of Calcutta. Similarly, Diener and Diener (1995) discovered a stronger relation between financial satisfaction and life satisfaction in poor than in wealthy countries.”
Meeting the Leadership Challenge of Employee Well-Being Through Relationship PsyCap and Health PsyCap (2013, background): “Moreover, work-related negative events such as unemployment or working in a demeaning job have been shown to have a long term impact on well-being through altering one’s happiness set point (Biswas-Diener & Diener, 2001; Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, & Diener, 2004).”